This article contextualizes the early poetry of Joy Harjo within the politics and legacy of Native rights activism. To arrive at a valid analysis and discussion based on the historical and biographical specifics, the article focuses on Harjo’s poems produced mostly during the climactic era of Native rights activism in the mid-1970s through the mid-80s, along with several interviews and recent memoirs in which the poet reveals the details of her own activism and association with related activist-writers. By doing so, this article demonstrates how Harjo, as an activist-writer and poet-warrior, delivers a powerful voice in articulating a sense of community and solidarity among Native peoples. The Muskogee/Creek writer employs inclusive storytelling modes and topics to weave stories of Native women and other women of color, thereby broadening the vision of the women’s communities. She particularly recovers and foregrounds the silenced or unheard voices of Native and other minority, especially Black, women activists that might otherwise be forgotten. Through the flexible, creative use of poetic techniques and humanistic, yet decolonial perspectives and imagination, the poet addresses the communal stories of Native peoples’ resistance, survival, and empowerment.